Damascus: Appointing an American ambassador contradicts spirit of the accountability law

The Syrian prime minister Naji Otari considered that appointing the new American ambassador in Damascus, Margaret Scooby, does not comply with Washington adoption of the "Syria Accountability Law."

The Syrian Officials news agency SANA quoted Otari as commenting on "deceiving accusations addressed by the US administration against Syria" that the "current American administration, which does not have a unified opinion, appointed a new ambassador for its in Damascus at a time when the American house of representatives approved the law against Syria."

On the effect of this decision on relations with Europe, he said that "the European Union is taking its own position regardless the USA." On accusing Syria of supporting "terrorism" through receiving radical Palestinian organizations, the Syrian prime minister said that "there are in Syria some 500,000 Palestinians who have only their own special media offices."

He added that "Syria had suffered a lot of terrorism and called for an international conference to recognize terrorism and to distinguish it from legitimate resistance against occupation, and that the US known well that its accusations against Syria are untrue, the same does the international community."

He recalled that "Syria submitted a draft resolution to the UN to make the Middle East region an area free from mass destruction weapons but the US rejected it since Israel owns 200 nuclear spearheads."

Otari said that relations with Iraq are good and "we do give necessary aid to the Iraqi people to get rid off its crisis so as to restore back its natural position."